One hundred thirty campers and staff from Arkansas and eight other states are participating in the Arkansas Interfaith Conference Choir Camp 2017 at Subiaco during the week of July 23-29. Five religious denominations are represented. Instruction in choral music, handbells, and art are being offered to all campers. This is the 30th consecutive year that Subiaco Abbey and Academy has hosted this group at Subiaco.

Zachary Plugge and Ryan Moore won the human-powered car event at the STEM competition at Paris High on May 5. A number of area schools participated. The car was completely built by Zachary and Ryan. They used parts from both families to make it. Steering and front wheels were from a riding lawn mower, back wheels from an old bike). Zachary drove the car, Ryan was only allowed to push 20 feet. On Friday, May 5th, 15 Subiaco students competed in the annual STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Competition held at the Paris High School. The event is sponsored by the Guy Fenter Educational CO-OP and brings in close to 1,000 students, grades 5th-12th, from across the area to compete in several different competitions. This year the competitions consisted of a bridge build, robotics challenge, engineering challenge, water filtration build, catapult build, wind mill build, egg buggy build, and a people powered car challenge. The boys spent several weeks prior to the competitions designing and creating their respective builds and because of their dedication did extremely well at the competition. Of the six competitions Subiaco competed in they won 1st place in five events: people powered car (Sr. High), water filtration (Jr. High), bridge building (Jr. and Sr.), and robotics (Jr.). Subiaco came in 2nd in several competitions: bridge build (Sr.), catapult (Sr.) and engineering challenge (Sr.).

Achieving academic honors at any high school is quite an accomplishment. To do so at a college preparatory academy is even more so an honor and extraordinary achievement. Congratulations to all these young men for their academic accomplishments this quarter. Click above to access the honor roll and faculty lists for the 2nd quarter.